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US News Archive for January 2006:
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Efforts to rescue 13 trapped coal miners
A nine-person rescue crew entered a coal mine in north-central West Virginia Monday afternoon in an attempt to reach 13 miners trapped after an early morning explosion, officials said...
CNN - January 2, 2006
Rescuers seek trapped U.S. miners
A rescue crew is inside a West Virginia coal mine trying to save 13 miners trapped underground after an explosion, an official says. It is not known if the miners survived the blast...
CNN - January 2, 2006
'Gas war' escalates
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko decries the move by Russia's state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom to suspend the flow of natural gas to his country. Russia responds by accusing Ukraine of diverting about 100 million cubic meters of gas intended for European customers, the Interfax news agency reported...
CNN - January 2, 2006
Mexico welcomes Zapatista tour
A spokesman for Mexico's president says a national tour by Zapatista rebels is a mark of democratic maturity...
BBC News - January 2, 2006
US budget airline to close down
Budget US airline Independence Air announces it is to shut down after its parent company failed to find an investor or buyer...
BBC News - January 2, 2006
Seven die in Iraq suicide bomb blast
Two assassination attempts against officials in Baghdad fail, but a suicide car bomber kills seven people in an attack on a bus carrying police recruits...
CNN - January 2, 2006
Weather the wild card in grass fires
As Oklahoma City firefighters mopped up hot spots from dangerous grassfires, the National Weather Service on Monday warned of 20- to 30-mph winds and tinder-dry conditions that could fuel more life-threatening blazes...
CNN - January 2, 2006
3 dead as ice rink roof collapses
At least three people are dead and 20 missing after the roof of an ice skating rink collapsed under heavy snow in a southern German town, police say...
CNN - January 2, 2006
NFL: Rams fire coach Martz
St Louis head coach Mike Martz, Green
Bay's Mike Sherman and Houston's Dom Capers are all fired...
BBC News - January 2, 2006
Bush defends US spying programme
President Bush strongly defends his domestic spying programme, calling it vital and necessary to protect the US...
BBC News - January 2, 2006
Italy hostages still held in Yemen
Yemen's prime minister said Monday his government would not negotiate with armed tribesmen holding five Italians hostage, showing a toughening of policy following the second kidnapping of Western tourists in five days...
CNN - January 2, 2006
'Perfect storm' for fires
Conditions described as a "perfect storm" for wildfires are expected to continue today in Oklahoma and Texas, where blazes have scorched tens of thousands of acres in less than a week. Authorities have blamed three deaths in Texas and one in Oklahoma on the fires...
CNN - January 2, 2006
Recruited in Wartime, a Young Private Now Faces Her First Deployment to Iraq
For some service members, the conflict they gave little thought to when signing up has now become a consuming reality...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Giants claim NFC East honours
Tiki Barber helps the New York Giants seal the NFC East title with victory over the Oakland Raiders...
BBC News - January 2, 2006
Redskins return to NFL play-offs
The Washington Redskins book their place in the play-offs with a 31-20 win over the Philadelphia Eagles...
BBC News - January 2, 2006
Alito Supporters Portray Nominee as Less Polished
How Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. will come off in his Supreme Court confirmation hearings is an unknown in the politics of his confirmation...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
A Buoyant Mayor Bloomberg Begins His Second Term
In his second inaugural address, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pledged to pursue a bold housing program and a war on illegal guns...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
China's Youth Look to Seoul for Inspiration
South Korea has been defining the tastes of many Chinese and other Asians for the past half decade...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Playboy Makes Move in India, But Without the Centerfold
Playboy is seeking to do in India what it had never done before: publish a magazine with its usual fare, except for its name and its nudes...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Bloomberg Staffs Up as Others Downsize
Bloomberg News, the financial news service, is expanding at a time when many print news outlets are contracting or repositioning themselves online...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Wal-Mart's Holiday Growth May Be at Low End of Forecast
Wal-Mart Stores, which mounted an unprecedented holiday marketing campaign, is on track to post its weakest December sales growth in five years...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Viacom Completes Split Into 2 Companies
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Lesson for Murdoch: Keep the Bloggers Happy
Users of the social-networking Web site MySpace, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, became angry recently over perceived tampering with content...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Answering Back to the News Media, Using the Internet
Subjects of newspaper articles and news broadcasts now fight back with the same methods reporters use to generate articles and broadcasts...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda
The effort with Sunni religious leaders is by the same contractor that paid Iraqi newspapers to print positive articles written by American soldiers...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Drilling Down: Spending Pocket Change Over the Internet
The number of Americans making online purchases of $2 or less is skyrocketing, according to a recent survey...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Russia Cuts Off Gas to Ukraine in Cost Dispute
Talks over pricing and transit terms unraveled into a bald political conflict that could carry consequences for gas supplies to Western Europe...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Bank of America, Absorbing MBNA, Is No. 1 in Credit Cards
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Agencies Look Beyond Focus Groups to Spot Trends
Trend-spotting has grown in importance as marketers have become frustrated with some of the traditional tools of market research...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Japan's Chip Makers Search for a Strategy
Japanese chip makers are trying to snap out of a decline by joining forces, either by sharing factory construction costs or through outright mergers...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
At 150 Edgars Lane, Changing the Idea of Home
Tracing the history of one home through the decades shows how the idea of what a house means to a family has changed...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
States Take Lead in Push to Raise Minimum Wages
Thwarted by Congress, labor unions and community groups have increasingly focused their efforts at raising the minimum wage on the states, where the issue has received more attention...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Data, Music, Video: Raising a Curtain on Future Gadgetry
Technological convergence may now be in the offing, but some fear the industries have not yet made connecting all those devices simple enough for the average user...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
E-Commerce Report: Those Born to Shop Can Now Use Cellphones
Calling all retailers: 2006 may finally be the year that consumers start buying goods with their cellphones...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Major Russian TV Station Is Accused of Censorship
REN-TV offers an alternative to Russia’s state-run news media, but it is feeling some pressure...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
Advertising's Twilight Zone: That Signpost Up Ahead May Be a Virtual Product
Digital product placement on television programs has gained traction as advertisers increasingly look beyond the traditional 30-second spot to reach consumers...
New York Times - January 2, 2006
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